X Article - Background

The X Article, formally titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", was published in Foreign Affairs in July 1947. Though signed pseudonymously by "X," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the USSR from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman. The article was an expansion of a well-circulated State Department cable called the Long Telegram and became famous for setting forth the doctrine of containment. X Article ...

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Kennan had been stationed at the US Moscow embassy from 1944 as minister-counselor. Although he was highly critical of the Soviet system, the mood within the US State Department was one of friendship towards the Soviets, since they were considered an important ally. In February 1946 the US Moscow embassy got a question from the United States Treasury asking why the Soviets were not supporting the newly created World B ...

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In writing the Long Telegram, Kennan was profoundly aware of the issues at stake in his answer, as the preface of the Long Telegram relates: Answer to Dept’s 284, Feb. 3,11 involves questions so intricate, so delicate, so strange to our form of thought, and so important to analysis of our international environment that I cannot compress answers into single brief message without yielding to what I feel would be dangerous degree of oversimplification. I hope, therefore, Dept will bear with me if I submit in answer to this question ...

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